Lenny and Will | Act One
Starting at the recreated Globe Theatre, Lenny Henry takes a journey of discovery through the plays he's now passionate about to find out why we so often put the Bard on a pedestal.
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Front Row | Women and Shakespeare
And on Shakespeare's birthday, we discuss the women who made him as well as his female contemporaries with Charlotte Scott, from the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, and Rami Targoff author of Shakespeare's Sisters: Four Women Who Wrote the Renaissance.
In Our Time | Twelfth Night, or What You Will
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great comedies of world literature in which love and desire in Illyria sit uneasily alongside thwarted dreams and compromise.